The Incredible Hulk

Im a little lost on this movie? Why is this not a sequal and why do some not like the first one? I thought it was pretty good and to the point and had a pretty good story.

Sorry i didnt read the whole thread.

Edward Norton is mild-mannered, and he has the range to lose his fiercely lose his temper. He'll be great, and bring some class to the franchise.

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Take a character whose entire cultural reputation is built around him causing large amounts of mindless destruction and try and put him in the centre of a film that deals almost exclusively with everything but the destruction (namely, some psychological mumbo-jumbo about his relationship with his father or something)...and when the time comes to throw in the necessary action scenes, you use poor CGI.

That seems to be the reason people didn't like Hulk.

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You thought the CGI was bad? WHolly cow...lol...I thought it was pretty great. He looked real most of the time..."well as real as a green 1500lb man can look"..

And on the new movie he looks pretty much the same. I will not go to the movies to see this, but I will check it out on DVD...I just cant see taking my family and spending 35$ to see it again.

I didn't think the CGI was poor, but I agree with most of the rest.

I'm not inherently against a more serious, somber, psychological portrayal of the big guy, but I'm just no nuts about the way Ang Lee did it. I think a lot of editing cleans that film up considerably, though; the beginning dragged on long enough that it might as well have been the middle, the middle was pretty cool, and the ending was just flat-out goofy...


I enjoyed what action there was, and liked the effects fine, but just didn't care for the pacing, or the bizarre third act.

Not necessarily the Hulk himself, but...

Well, to be fair, you're not paying to see anything "again." It's a whole different film. I understand that it may seem a little stale having just seen the character recently, but penalizing it for that makes as much sense as not seeing Batman Begins because you didn't like Batman Forever. It's a different cast and crew, a different studio, and a different tone. Even if Hulk somehow infected your feelings towards the character himself, he's being portrayed very differently this time around.

Don't get me wrong; I feel less excitement for this than I would have thought, and I attribute that largely to my feelings towards Hulk. But rationally, I know they ought to be judged on their own merits.

I wanted to walk out of the theater during the third act of The Hulk. I thought that film completely trashed the mythos of the character, and Nolte was unbearable to watch at the end. The film was miscast, poorly paced, and the risky editing style Lee tried to pull off just didn't work, at all. I consider this film to be bottom of the barrel as far as comic films go.

I am hoping the character gets better handling in this next version...

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I think people "read" too much into these things. Its a movie about a guy that turns into the Hulk. Its nothing more. Its like VanDamme trying so hard to act in his latest movies. People just want a good roundhouse kick and some splits. Thats it....Dont make too much of this. Its a movie based from a cartoon.

I guess thats why I didnt see much wrong with the first one. I took it for what it was...

You're right: a lot of people just want the action; but that was precisely why so many disliked Hulk. It took a good 40 minutes before things got going, and spent most of its runtime delving into Banner's psyche. The first film was guilty of exactly the sorts of things you're talking about. If your attitude is that you just want a fun comic book movie, that's perfectly valid, though it's hard to figure out why you would shun the apparently high-speed pace of The Incredible Hulk, yet defend the slow, plodding, uber-philosophical Hulk.

All that said, I still want my superhero movies to read into things, and have some meaning and purpose beyond the raw excitement. But I've certainly gone into the movies craving something mindless and fun, so I won't fault anyone else for wanting it sometimes.

Yea...I agree on that...It did take a while for things to get going..But once you finally seen him change I thought it did ok from there keeping your attention.

Ah makes sense.

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I read this earlier. Im disapointed that they'd cut a dark scene like that. As for Cap i dont care. I was never a fan of Cap.

Source: Blu-ray.com

if you buy the any of the old tv shows with billy bixiy incdabile hulk tv showon dvd you get a free movie ticket. i got two free movie tickets.

SOS Hollywood posted part of an exlusive interview with Louis Letterier where he not only said there would be a Captain America Cameo but went into GREAT detail about it. He CLEARLY says Captain America meets Banner!

“There’s a point when Bruce Banner gives up on his quest for the cure and decide to kill himself. So he travels far North and reaches the Arctic Circle. You might have seen bits of it in some of the promos. The result was a very dark and strong scene, which Marvel, me and everyone else’s considered to be too hard to young audiences to take, so we’ve cut it. Having that said, when Bruce arrives at his destination he meets up with Captain America! At some point this week, we will make it available on the internet – but I cannot tell you where or when – and the material will definitely be on the DVD.”

This is where things get really ugly. It would seem according to LatinoReview that the whole bit about Captain America, is a LIE. Gale Anne Hurd the producer of the movie, has this to say;

"He didn't really mean the character of Captain America, unless there's something that I don't know. It's the serum....we do have the serum. If you look at the movie again you'll see that the serum is Captain America."

Click here to read the whole interview with Gale Anne Hurd.

Saw it last night...you won't be disappointed.